Walkthrough: Obtain a Temporary Token for an Authenticated User

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This walkthrough demonstrates how to use the Security Application Block to obtain a token for an authenticated user.

To reproduce the demonstration

  1. Create the security cache by adding the following code.

    ISecurityCacheProvider secCache = SecurityCacheFactory.GetSecurityCacheProvider("Caching Store Provider");

    'Usage
Dim secCache As ISecurityCacheProvider = SecurityCacheFactory.GetSecurityCacheProvider("Caching Store Provider")

  2. Authenticate the user. The following code demonstrates how to authenticate a user using the System.Web.Security.Membership class.

    IIdentity identity = null;
if (Membership.ValidateUser("username", "password"))
{
  identity = new GenericIdentity("username", Membership.Provider.Name);
}

    'Usage
Dim identity As IIdentity = Nothing
If (Membership.ValidateUser("username", "password")) Then
  identity = New GenericIdentity("username", Membership.Provider.Name)
End If

  3. Call the SaveIdentity method on the security cache object by adding the following code.

    IToken token = null; 
if (identity != null)
{
  token = secCache.SaveIdentity(identity);
}

    'Usage
Dim token As IToken = Nothing
If (Not identity Is Nothing) Then
  token = secCache.SaveIdentity(identity)
End If

This stores the identity information and returns a token.